The Egyptian authorities opened a new 7.2 km of section of Line 3 of the Cairo metro serving five new stations in the eastern part of the city – Cairo Fair, Stadium, Kolleyet el Banat, Al Ahram and Haroun El Rachid – on 7 May 2014.

Bouygues Construction is a partner of Solar Decathlon Europe 2014, the competition that challenges teams from universities and graduate schools around the world to design and build a real, functional home that is entirely solar powered.

The Uliving consortium, which consists of Bouygues Development (the lead firm), a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction, and Derwent Living, a group specialising in housing and facilities management services, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract(1) to finance, design and build a student accommodation development on the campus of the University of Hertfordshire

Bouygues Thai and Bouygues Energies & Services, two subsidiaries of Bouygues Construction, have signed (1) a contract worth around $50 million (approx. €38 million) for the design, construction and maintenance of three photovoltaic power plants in the Tak and Sukhothai provinces of north-east Thailand for Soleq Solar Thailand, a solar energy producer.

EDF Energy, the U.K. unit of French state-controlled utility Electricite de France SA, said Monday it has picked a joint venture between French building company Bouygues SA and privately held Laing O'Rourke as preferred bidder for a contract for building work at a U.K. nuclear power station, worth around 2 billion British pounds.

French construction-to-broadcast conglomerate Bouygues SA and partners have signed a contract to finance, design, construct and maintain a building that will house the Paris Law Courts for a period of 27 years, Bouygues said Wednesday in a statement.

French construction-to-broadcast conglomerate Bouygues SA is setting up a construction joint venture in Qatar to bid for forthcoming projects in the country, a spokesman said Tuesday, confirming an early report from French newspaper Les Echos.

Martin Bouygues, chief executive of French construction and telecommunication group Bouygues SA, Wednesday downplayed problems in the construction of a nuclear plant in Flamanville, saying the project is a prototype and as such normally faces difficulties.

French railway network RFF Friday said its board has signed off on awarding a public-private partnership contract to a consortium led by construction and concessions company Vinci SA, to build a high-speed line from Tours to Bordeaux.